Monday, 30 March 2015

I have
a painty project for you today andI’ve
had the Gelli Plate out again. If you haven’t tried it I can highly recommend
it, it’s a fun and addictive way to make your backgrounds, you’ll have loads of
them, I do!!! Here is just one of them.

Here’s how I made it:-

Firstly,
as I mentioned above is to make a background with your Gelli Plate, I have used
the 8” x 10” Gelli Plate. For this one I just brayed on the colours I wanted from
Dina Wakleys acrylic paints (lime, turquoise, magenta & lemon).

Instructions:-

Apply all Frescos to the Gelli Plate and working
with a panel of lace the size of the plate, pull a print.

Adhere print to cardbase, layering lace across
mid-section.

Stamp the two hearts from With Love onto scrap of
painted cardstock. Ink up love only from
the With Love stamp, stamping onto a paper punched tag shape.Embellish the card with lace roses, lace
scraps and paper flower.

Recipe:

·Cut
a piece of smooth card around 14cm square and stamp the chevron design across
the lower half, starting with the orange ink slightly off centre and then
stamping either side with the blue ink.

·Stamp
your chosen bird on smooth card with the cobalt Archival ink and paint with the
Distress stains. Cut the bird out leaving a tiny border.

·Stamp
the spread your wings text directly on the decorated paper on the left hand
side using the cobalt ink. Add the paper to a dark blue mat and stick to your
chosen card blank. Stick the bird on as shown to finish.

As
you now see, very simple!

Don’t
forget to check out the challenge blog at 8am as we have a new challenge for
you today.

Thursday, 26 March 2015

I like
to do pockets for tags in my journals. I do this for two reasons as it gives me
somewhere to write that is hidden from view and I also like the way the tags
look sticking out the top and sides of the journal.

I have
a journal that is nearly complete apart from a few tags to finish for it, so
today I have done three tags for it and co-ordinated them to match the page
that they will stick out of.

What I did

I used
my Gelli Plate to do my main backgrounds andstarted with these two masks and these five colour paints.

I used the three Media paints to give me my
main colour and then used the Satin paints with the masks to give me a pattern.

I did
all my stamping with black Archival ink. I stamped my main image first, masked
this off before adding the rest of the images. I use these DylusionsStamps “Write Between the Lines” a lot on my
journal tags as they give a nice space to write in and go so well with most of
my images. I also recently visited the shop at That’s Crafty and I found my
must have set of stamps at the moment Primas “Coffe Stains” - at only £5.99 they
are a very useful set to have in your stash.

I
finished my tags with a few hand drawn lines and doodles round the edges.